Non-refillable bottle.



PATBNTED DBO. 8,1903.

T. S. PHI'LPOTT. NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED DB9. Z, 1901- NO' MODEL.

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UNIT D STATES Patented December 8, 1903.

PATENT. OFFICE.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 746,374, dated December8, 1903.

' Application filed December 2, 1901. Serial no. 84.488. (N0 model.)

To 00% whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS STANLEY PHIL- POTT, a subject of His Majestythe King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Mein street, Newtown,in the Colony of New Zealand, have invented a new and ImprovedNon-Refillable Bottle, of which the following is a specification. V

The object of this invention is to provide a bottle which can be readilyfilled in the first instance, but which cannot be refilled except withconsiderable trouble and difflculty.

The invention consists in fitting the inside of the bottom of the neckwith a conical valveseat, which is norm ally covered by aball-valve.

A stopper is fitted into the neck to guide and limit the rise of theball and is provided with holes or channels for the escape of liquorfrom the bottle.

The stopper is kept in position by a bolt (or a plurality of bolts)projected from the stopper by a spring or springs and taking into arecess or recesses in the neck of the bottle.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of the upper partof a bottle; Fig. 2, a vertical central sectional elevation of the same.Fig. 3 is a transverse section on 3 3, Fig. 1; and Fig. 4, a similarsection on 4 4:, Fig. 1.

The bottle-neck 1 has an internal flange 2 near its junction with thebottle, and upon said flange rests the conical valve-seat S, taperingupwardly and formed at its upper end to receive the ball-valve 4.

The stopper 5 fits the inside of the neck, and its lower end rests upona flange 6, pro- 3' ectin g from valve-seat 3, whereby said valveseat isretained in position. The stopper has a recess 7 to receive and guidethe ball 4, and passages 8 open communication between the recess '7 andachannel 9, formed circumferentially upon the stopper. Passages 10through the upper part of the stopper permit liquid to pass from saidchannel 9 to the open neck beyond the stopper when itis desired towithdraw the contents of the bottle.

Passages S and 10 are not in line with each other,so that there is greatdiffioulty in passing a wire through them in case attempt should be madeto hold the ball-valve from its seat in order to refill the bottle.

Bolts 11 and 12 are carried in a hole 13, formed through the stopper atright angles to the neck, said bolts being projected by a coilspring 14into recesses 15 and 16, formed in the neck upon opposite'sides of thestopper.

In operation the bottle is first filled in the ordinary way. Thevalve-seat 3 and the ballvalve are then inserted. The stopper is takenneck in the usualmanner.

The whole of the parts, except the spring, can be made of glass,porcelain, or other similar material.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,isg 1. In a non-refillable bottle a flange upon the internalcircumference of the neck, a valve-seat'resting thereon, a stopperfitting the neck and engaging at its lower end a flange projecting fromthe Valve-seat, a ball received by a recess in the stopper, an openingin the valve-seat closable by the ball, the stopper having acircumferential channel and passages giving communication between saidchannel and said recess and the upper part of the stopper havingpassages from said channel to the open neck of the bottle and means forsecuring the stopper within the bottleneck. v

2. In a non-refillable bottle a flange upon the internal circumferenceof the neck, a conical valve-seat resting thereon a stopper fitting theneck and engaging at its lower end a flange projecting from thevalve-seat a ball received by a recess in the stopper and adapted toclose an opening in the valve-seat, the stopper having a circumferentialchannel and passages giving communication between said channel and saidrecess and the upper part of the stopper having passages from saidchannel to the open neck of the bottle the stopper having a holetransversely through it, bolts within said hole projecting in oppositedirections and a spring between the bolts; the neck of the bottle havingrecesses to receive the ends of said bolts.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twowitnesses.

THOMAS STANLEY PHILPOTT.

Witnesses:

ERNEST J. ANSTISS, HENRIE H. RAYWARD.

